Movies like Mercy Streets

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Mercy Streets (2000)
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Mercy Streets (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Estranged twin brothers - one a con man, the other an Episcopal deacon - accidentally switch places... and find God in the process.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, christian film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: twins, christianity, christian, redemption, crime gone awry, heist, dishonesty, betrayal, disorder, estrangement, cons and scams, priest, scam, belief in god, faith, religious, hostage, prison, family relations, rivalry, society, on the run, forgery, siblings relations, going straight ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, rome italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and independent film films with plots about dishonesty, criminal heroes, rivalry, crime gone awry, disorder, gangster and deadly mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Mercy Streets: The Immortals (1995), Dead Heat (2002), Wild Seven (2006), Deadfall (1993), Backflash (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Immortals (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An elaborate heist unites 8 strangers in a simultaneous assault on targets all over the city- and explodes in a hailstorm of gunfire and high-speed chases in this powerful action-thriller. Recruited by a Mafia nightclub owner (Eric Roberts), 4 ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, reluctant partners, gangster, crime gone awry, dishonesty, partner, disorder, odd couple, mind game, rivalry, criminal heroes, cons and scams ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Dead Heat (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Boston cop Pally is forced into early retirement, putting a strain on his marriage. Pally's stepbrother, Ray, attempts to lift his spirits by tipping him off to a sure-bet racehorse. But their attempts to secure the champion equine are thwarted ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gambling, mob boss, starting over, rivalry, crime gone awry, betrayal, gangster, family problems, jockey, parents and children, cons and scams, addiction ...
Place: boston, usa
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Wild Seven (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious domino effect as quickly as an uncontrollable virus kills. As he exits Arizona State Penn after twenty-one long years, Wilson has only one thing on the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, criminal's revenge, frame up, vengeance, cons and scams, going straight, brutality, false accusation, life is a bitch, hooligan, escape, goofy hero ...
Place: arizona, usa
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 4.0
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Deadfall (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After he accidentally kills his father, Mike, during a sting, Joe tries to carry out Mike's dying wish by recovering valuables that Mike's twin brother Lou stole from him years earlier. But Uncle Lou is also a confidence artist, and Joe is ...
Style: stylized, suspenseful, realistic, serious, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, gangster, criminal heroes, cons and scams, crime gone awry, uncle nephew relationship, greed, danger, fight scenes, tribe, buddies, drug ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
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Backflash (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: femme fatale, crime gone awry, cons and scams, on the run, odd couple, danger, gangster, partner, rivalry, on the road, criminal heroes, disorder ...
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Detour (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Danny and his gang attempt to rob the warehouse of a mob boss, they find themselves on the run. Danny goes back to his hometown to find his mother has recently died leaving him the farm on the condition that he must open the dairy and run it ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: on the run, warehouse, mob boss, gangster, gang, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, going straight, law enforcement, betrayal ...
Time: 90s
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Hand Gun (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack manages to hide the $500,000 from the robbery before he makes his way to his death bed.
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female psychopath, heist, estrangement, power relations, disorder, family relations, siblings relations, riddles and clues, criminal heroes, on the run, treasure hunt, crime gone awry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york
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Federal Protection (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: "Chop Chop" Frankie Carbone has made a career out of stealing cars for the mob in Chicago. An attempted assassination by a mob boss goes badly and Frankie retaliates, only to wind up in the hands of the Feds. Frankie agrees to testify ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, touching, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rivalry, dishonesty, hidden identity, social decay, master criminal, betrayal, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, assassination attempt, disorder, fish out of water ...
Place: usa, chicago, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Real Thing (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Their plan was simple...Get the Cash. As Rupert, an ex-con, tries to go straight, his younger brother James pursues a life of delinquency. Days after being released from jail, James is gunned down and lies waiting in a hospital for a liver ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot: heist, gang, new year's eve, dishonesty, partner, best friend, friends, confined, criminal heroes, law enforcement, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Grace & Mercy (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In poor health and dead broke, Grace has a plan to provide a future for her young daughter. With the help of her sister Mercy, she robs her former employer. But an alarm goes off during the robbery and they escape into a nearby church. They hold the ...
Style: touching, serious, uplifting, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: hostage, church, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, self discovery, clergy, fugitives, introspection, life is a bitch, on the run, criminal heroes, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Two Coyotes (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A drug runner takes over a lucrative drug business only to find his new found empire crumble when a deal goes bad.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, betrayal, rivalry, criminal's revenge, gangster, drug dealing, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, addiction, criminal heroes, going straight, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico
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Spanish Judges (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A con-artist hires two low-lifes to cover him during a deal, ending with three criminals, two dueling pistols, and one night they'll never forget
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Plot: psychopath, criminal heroes, mind game, unlikely criminals, betrayal, dishonesty, rivalry, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, heist, mentally challenged, murder ...
Time: 90s
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Decisions (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
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Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a group of friends decide to pull a bank heist to get out from underneath their money troubles. They quickly discover that things can unravel in a hurry! A compromised LAPD Detective (Corey Haim) on the take with a crime syndicate figure want ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.
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Audience: boys' night
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Genre: Action, Crime
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Duration: 93 min.
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Duration: 103 min.
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The Rally (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
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Story: No overview found.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 85 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 108 min.
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Duration: 88 min.
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20%
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Action
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Hell's Kitchen (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
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Time: 90s
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19%
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Ready 2 Die (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Charlie Valentine (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film chronicles the exploits of the title character, Charlie, played by Raymond J. Barry (Training Day) a career criminal intent on scoring one last big pay day. When his "perfect crime" goes bad, Charlie flees to Los Angeles to hide ...
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Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Winner Takes All (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two rapper childhood friends turn to the quick and easy life of crime to support their needy parents. But after a foiled robbery, one of them is jailed while the other flees, changes his name, joins the military, and grows up to become a narcotics ...
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Time: 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Harold Robbins' Body Parts (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ty's pal J.J. frames him in a murder and cocaine theft in Hong Kong in 1992. Ty's wife Rachel may be in on the con, so, when Ty gets early release from prison as a gesture of good will from the city's new Mainland government, he ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
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